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Brain clutter

January 27, 2014 Peneloping

dress: vintage // sweater: Gap // shoes: UO Ecote // tights: Lemon

It’s funny how things due in the spring can seem so far off before the holidays, and then as soon as it’s January all the deadlines suddenly loom so much closer. I have what is sort of a Masters thesis due at the beginning of April and that suddenly feels like it’s about two weeks away.

My coping mechanisms this week have been to shop for seasonally inappropriate vintage dresses and to reorganize my sewing stash. After that I managed to sit down and crank out a few pages today so I think it seems to be working! Hee.

I want to be a hermit seamstress in a treehouse with yarn

September 3, 2012 Peneloping

It is blissfully nice to be able to unpack my things and start organizing my new room. While my summer was amazing, it was getting more than a little tiring to be continuously living out of suitcases and boxes. In fact, I went on a huge grocery shopping spree this weekend and spend nearly all of yesterday cooking. It was so nice to be able to try a bunch of the recipes I bookmarked ages ago!

I’m also mostly in denial about the fact that school starts up again tomorrow. To be fair, two of my four classes are on Monday, and we have today off, so I get to ease into the first week with only two classes. So I really shouldn’t be complaining.

In my defense, I’ve been separated from my yarn stash and my sewing machine since the end of June. I found a few dresses I had been working on right before I left for France and nearly cried. I’ll just be locking myself in my scrumptious new room for a straight week to work on all of these thankyouverymuch.

Or I could be a responsible adult and go do the four chapters of reading that one of my professors has already so kindly assigned. (Although to be honest, I already snuck a peek at the first chapter and the book sounds awesome! </hermione>)

One of my favorite things about my new room is the built in shelving. I was almost a little overwhelmed while I was unpacking, trying to decide what I should put on each of the shelves. I’m pretty happy with the way this one turned out. Excuse the chaos in the top and bottom shelves. I had thought I’d found all my yarn but then discovered three more bags I had forgotten about. Whoops. Who’s not allowed to buy yarn anymore for a while? -raises hand-

I hope everyone’s having a great long weekend!

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Unpacking and more unpacking

September 1, 2012 peneloping

The past few days have been jam-packed with moving-related adventures. There was the actual move out, then the move in, then the Ikea and Home Depot trip, and then the cleaning of the old apartment, followed by the return of the old apartment keys.

I think today will be my first errand-less day to stay at home and lounge and unpack. -fingers crossed-

Anyway, I’m really excited to have everything out of boxes and put away so I can stop having to dig through stuff trying to find other stuff. I did manage to unpack my makeup and set it up on my dresser! I’ve always wanted a makeup “area” (other than the bathroom) and this worked out perfectly!

I have two diy-ed hanging wall shelfy things that will go on the wall next to this and will hold accessories and hair stuffs.

Now time for a snack and then more unpacking!

Lazy Sunday

June 3, 2012 peneloping

It’s sort of muggy out, the perfect weather for lazing around and getting absolutely nothing done.

I managed to be a huge bum all morning but then had a surge of productivity. No idea where it came from but I hope it lasts. Up until now I’ve tried to update the blog more frequently than not, but I think the utter lack of organization has kind of led to sporadic posts followed by nothing for a week, followed by sporadic posts. Not exactly what I’m going for.

Luckily I happened upon this blog, and particularly this blog post and decided that a blog calendar is the way forward. Sidenote: I have no idea why I’ve never thought of this. Other sidenote: I could never in a million years pull off purple/blue hair but holy crap it looks amazing on her.

So I spent about half an hour writing out posts I’ve had in the back of my mind that I keep forgetting about when I actually sit down to write. And then I another half hour writing post-its for projects I keep meaning to finish and put those post-its on the second half of the month to give me some time to finish them. And now I have to finish them or bloggy will be sad and empty. It’s a win-win.

On a semi-related note, I may be guilty of jumping on the Pinterest bandwagon. In my defense, it’s SO helpful for keeping all of the sewing ideas/DIY/tutorials I run into in one accesible place!

Here’s some stuff I’m excited to try:

I thrifted a dress a while ago that I’ve been wanting to alter but wasn’t sure how. I think this might be a winner.

Source: jemimabean.blogspot.com via Ping on Pinterest

I printed out the Colette Sorbetto pattern a while ago and have been meaning to play around with it. I keep getting distracted by a tiny voice in my brain that keeps yelling “MAKE ALL THE DARLING RANGES!”

Anyway, this was one of the variations I wanted to try. I love how flowy and summer it looks with the gathers instead of just one front pleat. I’d wear this with summery cardigans and denim shorts.

Source: jemimabean.blogspot.com via Ping on Pinterest

This pattern is available for free on Burdastyle and I’ve had it for literally five years. I’m not exaggerating. I rediscovered it yesterday and now I really want to make it but I might add a skirt to turn it into a dress.